TY  - BOOK
AU  - Small,Mario Luis
TI  - Villa Victoria: the transformation of social capital in a Boston barrio 
SN  - 9780226762937 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HN80.B7 S63 2004eb
U1  - 302/.14/09744/61 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University Of Chicago Press
KW  - Social capital (Sociology)
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
KW  - Social participation
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Poor
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Puerto Ricans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SELF-HELP
KW  - Personal Growth
KW  - Success
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Groepsbinding
KW  - gtt
KW  - Armoede
KW  - Getto's
KW  - Puertoricanen
KW  - South End (Boston, Mass.)
KW  - სოციალური პირობები - პუერტო. რიკო
KW  - სოციალური დახმარება
KW  - სოციალური კეთილდღეობა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index; How does neighborhood poverty affect social capital? -- Villa Victoria and Boston's South End -- The rise and decline of local participation, part 1 : social organization theory -- The rise and decline of local participation, part 2 : cohorts and collective narratives -- The ecology of group differentiation -- Social capital and the spatialization of resources -- A labyrinth of loyalties -- Social capital in poor neighborhoods
N2  - For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social isolation--the disappearance of what sociologists call social capital. But relatively few have examined precisely how such poverty affects social capital or have considered for what reasons living in a poor neighborhood results in such undesirable effects. This book examines a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston to consider the pros and cons of social scientific thinking about the true nature of ghettos in America. Mari
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